Tuesday, June 21, 2016

SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Assalamu alaikum and Ramadan Kareem. I’m very honored to be with you. I’m holding this mike very close because I was in the Arctic the other day. You can hear my voice. I caught a cold. I think I got too close to the icebergs.

But it’s an honor for me to be here. Shaarik, thank you for a very generous introduction. More importantly, thank you for your wonderful service to the United States State Department. I think all of you can feel his energy and his enthusiasm, can’t you? And he is doing a terrific job for the State Department. (Applause.)

A wonderful good evening to you all. I want to express my appreciation to Imam Pastor Magid and also to Pastor Imam Roberts – (laughter) – very appreciative for their – very grateful for their wonderful words of faith, their words of an expression of our common ground that brings us here, and which more and more people really need to understand. And to all of the distinguished leaders of faith who are here, particularly if you don’t mind if I single out my old friend, His Eminence Cardinal McCarrick, who is such a wonderful leader here. (Applause.) I want to thank you all for hosting us here today. I’m looking out at this audience, and I want to know why there are more cameras focused on Angelina Jolie than me. What’s going on here, guys? (Laughter.)

Beyer said “We’re not going to discriminate when it comes to immigration based on religion.” This alludes to Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigration in order to prevent jihad terror attacks. He added that H.R. 5207 was intended to “appeal to hope rather than fear.” Kumbaya. Giving into “Fear” is Islamofauxbia.

BTW when I Googled on "Islamofauxbia," I got this response "No results found for Isalmofauxbia" and instead got results for "Islamophobia," top among them the CAIR-sponsored www.islamophobia.org. Now the Internet is being compromised.